Naïve realism
Appearance is not automatically identical with actuality.
Philosophical classification
Corrigible Realism
Corrigible Realism is the philosophical classification of Røyndalism: a realism in which everything said, thought, modelled, and done must remain correctable in contact with actuality.
Reality gives the ground. Correction keeps the relation honest.
The basic claim
What is, is. Actuality does not wait for belief, interpretation, identity, model, system, or authority in order to be.
But appearance is not automatically knowledge. Human beings can mistake, distort, project, over-interpret, model, symbolize, identify, and systematize falsely. Therefore realism must be corrigible.
What it refuses
Relativism
Correction is possible because there is something to answer to.
Dogmatism
No system, including this one, is above correction before what is.
Authority substitution
Office, title, consensus, or institution cannot replace traceable correspondence.
Model worship
Internal coherence is not the same as external correspondence.
Identity reduction
The person must not be reduced to a label or role.